San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-04-14

SrEwARrs' money did some good. The
S5OO,OOG spent by him In paintings, help
ed America to $4,000 worth OF choice
canvass. The 100000 collection only
brought $500 600 at the sale.
SCIENCE has preferred another indict-
ment against the rat tribe. Not the
typographical rat, bat his four-foOted
confrere. Ii Is asserted on the highest
authority that the terrible trichinAe was
fret introduced into swines flesh 10y
their devouring dead rats. Away with
the rats.
The woman who took part in the late
Kansas election fell into the tolls OF the
campaign liar, and the Borrowing sisters
have had peck Of trouble unrayelling
the tissue Of falsehoOds thus woven
around them. From the silence OF dCs-
olate hours to the turmoil Of political
campaign Is a much pleasanter transit
ton in theory than In practice.
The railroads now projected In ihc
United States call for the laying OF near
ly 10000 miles Of track, and it is conii-
IDENTIFY expected that at least one-fOurth
OF this mileage will be laid before De-
cember 81. 1887.
How long would Cleveland have prac.
ticed at the Erie county bar and samp'
led the Erie county bars before he
would have laid up that Sl20,O0O with
which be will retire from the white
house March 4th, 1855?
The blessings Of a patent inside are
demonstrated by the Goliad Guard,
which, 10 its issue Of April 9th, say:
1.-The date of the vislt OF her majesty,
Queen Victoria, to Birmingham TO lay
he foundation OF the new law courts, Is
postponed 10 March 49,"
The reminiscent falsiiiers of this gen.
Grafton have struck a bonanza In Tue
case of Billy Kissane. The men who
were intimately acquainted with the
things he never did swarm In the columns
Of the big dailies, and their minute des.
criptions o. the scenes he never Inquired
in are among the most graphic examples
Of Journalistic pen painting.
TENNIsON received $40 line for his
Jubilee Ode-iOusness. Some one com
plains that the magazine arbiters care
less for what ia said than for who said
It, True, but Mr.. someone" must re-
member that Mr.. "Who" must have
made himself previously known by
something really meritOrious, to make
his name pass current.
GROVER does not take naturally to Red
Top, his Washington residence. The
house is too full Of draughts and 1t is
cold and keeping IL warm draws up
on that reserve of $l20. 600 which he aims
to save out OF bis four years salary, Like
Hayes, Grover is economical.
The Metropolitan Art association OF
New York have the finest colieciiCI OF
French paintings Of any gallery outside
of Paris, and there is but one there
which rivals it. Yet America is too
young and crude, so say our European
cities, to appreciate art.
The tobacco che ers of the east are
giving the cuspidores a rest, and the
hOusekeepers are rejoicing over the
prospects of the habit being entirely
abandoned in time. 1t is no longer
fashionable.
PHILADELPHIA makes bricks OF straw
without mortar, thus going one better
than the Egyptians. A house made en-
tirely OF straw will be put up in London
during the May exposition.
The paper bottle manufacture is be-
coming quite an extensive industry,
These bottles are found to resist the ac-
ton of frOsts, OF acids, they do not break
rs do glass. and h beer bottle is the next
p. Omise of the manufacturer.
TEXAS and Alabama have some cities
that boom away about their real estate
bOOms, but that old Kansas City boom
begun twenty years ago continues. One
day last week real estate to the value Of
Sl,0OS.0OO changed hands, the weeks
transfers were nearly $4,000 900 and the
city of the Kaw valley remained serene
as May morning.
OLD age is catching in Prussia. There
are 5000 Prussians over 80 years of age,
besides Emperor William. So much for
a royal example.
The Corsicana Courier is the only
journal democratic in Texas that doubts
whether a republican or democratic"
president will be inaugurated IN 1888.
The Staked Plain has found natural
solution to the Bell question. 1t stands
ready to furnish that sounding represen-
tative situation as sheep herder ON
western ranch. How many hearts it
would Tighten if Bell would take the
immortal Greeley's advice in this in
stance.